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Jun 21 2006

Thoughts on Fiction

Posted by: Seth Ben-Ezra in Links, Stories

Good thoughts on stories at these links:

We Are Thoughts On Fiction, Part One
We Are Thoughts On Fiction, Part Two

In particular, I thought about Polaris, where we have derived an almost sadistic glee from torturing our characters. Why is that? I think that it is because they are the characters that we actually love, and we are testing them to see what they are really made of. Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes they fail.

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